Find a local pharmacist if you can.
the thing that annoys me is they don’t care that you have a chronic condition. it’s not going to change. i’m going to need this med for the rest of my life.
but they need my doctor to re-up the prescription every 6 months all the same
They do care if you have a chronic condition. If you do, they can charge you as much as they want.
You forgot the pharmacist who thinks they know more than your doctor and has the gall to opine on your prescription.
But thats like their main point. Pharmacist do know a lot about drugs. It’s important to know about negative drug interactions and a pharmacist is more likely to catch it since they most likely know all the drugs you are taking. Your GP might not know about the drugs your psychiatrist gave you or that off-label drug your dermatologist gave you because people are horrible at knowing what drugs they are on and for what purpose.
Fair enough. All I really mean is “idgaf some random pharmacist is opposed to stimulants.”
Honestly I’ve always been surprised how much education is required to be a pharmacist when all they do is put pills into a bottle (obeying whatever the doctor wrote on your prescription) and pass it to you through the window. Then imagine going through all the years of University to get a master’s degree to work in the back of a CVS.
Seriously? They source the drugs, in the correct dosage, or they have to compound a drug, they have to know what other drugs you are on for conflicts that could kill you. They also teach you how to take the drugs correctly.
Why do people who have no fucking clue make comments?
As an outsider to the field it seems ridiculuous that being a doctor does not include this bit of knowledge. If a pharmacist is expected to do all this and able to override an MD (who can get the prescription wrong)… seems like a circus to me.
A pharmacist is much more qualified to give you that information than a fucking Doctor. The pharmacist instructions are for the exact drug in you hand, when you get the drug.
There are a lot of bad prescriptions to be honest. The amount of people who are prescribed both Adderall and large fills of benzos is too damn high.
don’t forget all those opiods the MDs told us were non-addictive.
That was a shame. Because now we have gone the opposite direction and they are massively under prescribed to who need it.
They aren’t even that addictive. Look up addiction rates for people prescribed them legitimately. But saying they were non addictive is obviously fucked up… Pharma reps were literally gaslighting doctors into thinking that they just weren’t prescribing enough and that’s why their patients were having pain, after 12 hours. Definitely not withdrawal symptoms
And the pharmacists helped that… How? Exactly?
Dude.
MDs fuck up prescriptions all the time. You want this.
Yeah pharmacists often know a lot more about drugs than doctors, and they get to focus their whole career on getting good at just that
RFK Jr.: You need meds? What’re you gay?
he just dips in methyelene blue, suntans till his skin is more burnt than a rotisserie chicken and hopped on roids at 70. fun fact the bear incident was just 11years prior.
PrFK Jr
Nothing a few hours on a tanning bed won’t fix.
me scrambling every month to get adhd meds in nyc:
first time? 🫠meanwhile, you can get an ounce of meth online for like $200
Hell, in Kansas I can finally get there scripts sent to the store but I have to talk to someone to get it filled. If they have it in stock. No, their checking isn’t always reliable. No, I can’t call two days earlier than the hard 28 limit on getting it refilled. I must call no more than 28 days ahead of time.
Also to call and speak to someone I have to spend 2 minutes telling the automated phone system that no, I can’t do it on the website and listen to their hours and all the other shit they put in the way of speaking to a human being.
Are you going to Walgreens? If so, entering 771 as soon as you hear something will take you straight to a human.
Yeah, I’ll give that a try next time.
Have you tried this yet? I’m interested if it works generally or if it’s just a local thing.
EDIT: Sorry about the double post, my client was being weird.
It does nothing for me here, just keeps blathering on expecting me to say something verbally.
We should consult the best and knowledgeable unlicensed pharmacist in 46 states, Grant Harting, on this phenomenon.
I’m currently stuck in prior authorization hell and used the last dose of my med yesterday. Ugh. I hate this fucking country.
Might be a long shot, but depending on the med, might want to ask your doctor’s office if they have sample supplies of the med to hold you over until they get the prior auth approved.
medications for mental illnesses are controlled so the insurance/hmo adds extra laborious steps to get it. pre-authorization or must have in-person doctors appts,etc. its not as fast i need this cream for skin/fungal asap. my insurance in the west requires pre-authorization, plus probably other requirements before refills. they are also more resistant Rx to more pricey drugs too.
Generally a good suggestion but having your mental health depend on a controlled substance is a fresh kind of hell. Anyone know how Spain’s health care system is for trans folks on testosterone? I can get citizenship in an EU country and a couple of people I know moved to Madrid last year and I think this situation has convinced me to move even if I’ve forgotten most of the Spanish I once knew.
I did pitch a fit and managed to get it filled today but I never want to deal with this shit again, it’s been life-alteringly awful previous times.
I had to set an annual reminder to call insurance to get that sorted out because the pharmacy doesn’t know why they rejected it and after a year my ADHD would forget that prior auth was a thing. So good of the insurance company to decide they need to interfere once a year with the medication I have been taking for over a decade!
i currently unable to get topicals for my skin condition because i have a hard time scheduling appoints since i had to use new insurance around my work schedule, which one of “problem solvers” have denied me of changing it. oh yea certain drugs like controlled substances, your insurance people adds extra step to even get it.
Excuses are the one thing that’s always in stock. Ask your doctor if ℞cuse is right for you.
You Americans…I just order my shit wherever I want and have it tomorrow for the best price.
We have same day supply optimization dialed in…for guns!
For some things those might work more efficient than drugs though. That’s a plus, yes?
There are definitely use cases.
Listen pal, we have the god guven RIGHT to buy our medicine at extremely inflated for no reason prices
I’m sorry man, of course you can!
But in case you’d get it cheaper suddenly, without being asked, you could maybe just throw away the difference or donate it to an evil cause?
Wait, would those people also get affordable meds?
NO!
Medication I need refilled monthly is 6-10k without insurance. Yayyyyy
That’s insane
Just one of my meds is $3500 w/o insurance. Another one, just over $1200. Lost my insurance, so let’s hope the ole asthma and COPD can deal until I get generics from India
Best of luck to you on that.
I’m very lucky, my insurance covers everything because I’m so poor.They cancelled my Medicaid. I have no physical assets or even a permanent address. Just sleep places. Couple $20k ER bills and the state is reconsidering. Might get reinstated, might not. Can’t take anything else from me. Worst they can do is let me die and I’d be fine with that
That’s some bs man
“Maybe go fuck yourself.”
Will do, thanks!
They learned from all of the mechanics, plumbers, construction crews and electricians. While most of the rest of the world goes broke these folks will do okay. I once called a company to look at a window that needed replacing and the first thing he said when he walked up is “Your shingles are starting to curl”. I went with another company who was more reputable, charged me fairly, and did good work. It’s tough out there.
But are you sure your shingles aren’t starting to curl? Maybe the other one just didn’t have a shingles guy so they don’t give a fuck about your curled shingles
Clearly he put a curling iron to his shingles for that fancy curled shingle look. Why would he want that fixed?
I pick up prescriptions for people and CVS always fascinates me, they have like 6 people running around looking busy but somehow very few prescriptions are being filled.
I always see the same thing. Im guessing a big part of the job is inventory and paperwork
Yeah, don’t blame the staff. While I was trying to get a printer fixed so they could print my order at a Walgreens, I overheard someone really berating the staff. He was getting personal.
Yeah that’s not cool
Yeah I’m sure procedures need to be followed and maybe too much is better than too little, but Walgreens doesn’t seem to operate that slowly.
I just have mine delivered. I don’t bother with the pharmacy bs
Imagine if America switched to using safer prescription methods… like having everything in blister boxes, just like you see with lots of OTC medicine. Just grab the box, print out the prescription sticker, and you’re done. No mistakes, reduced overdose risks, much more traceability, easier stock methods…
Though I can see the appeal in scrambling around, putting loose pills into those funky orange bottles.
In Australia we don’t have pill bottles outside of maybe hospitals. Everything comes in blister packs.
You can’t even buy a “bottle” of aspirin or paracetamol, it’s all blister packs.
I think the idea is that if someone is trying to OD, or if a child gets hold of them, they have to pop each pill out individually rather than just pop the cap off one bottle and swallow the lot, which is difficult for children and psychologically slows down the suicidal.
Australian here, I’m on 7 meds and 4 of them are in bottles. Not the orange pharmacy bottles either, the manufacturer packaging. Common medications too, beta blockers, BP medication, Lithium, etc. I use Chemist Warehouse (Our CVS/chain type pharmacy).
Yes some are, I was on lithium too and I’m on Vyvanse - both bottles. But stuff like Panadol, neurofen, cold & flu, all the OTC stuff I can’t think of anything that’s bottled.
I do think blisters are better. I accidentally overdosed on lithium years ago. It was pretty stupid but I used to use a spare lithium bottle for my next days medication. At the time I was on 21 pills a day so when I accidentally grabbed the wrong bottle and swigged my pills, noticed it felt a little more than usual but not enough to bother checking. Until I got really sick and figured out I’d just taken over 30 lithium pills 🤢
Interesting, I stand corrected then. I’ve personally never encountered them in my life
Maybe it’s a prescription thing. My ADHD meds are literally amphetamine and come in a bottle. Paracetamol comes in blister packs only.
In Estonia not Aus tho
i have heard CVS intentionally short staffs thier pharmacy and stores, the one years ago 10+ i went to and the one downtown barely has people in it, no wonder they close the stores permanently, aside from rising cost and shoplifitng. probably to avoid paying pharmacists too much , and with benefits, since you need a pharmD to become one.
Calling any CVS pharmacy around me is immediately met with an AI system that takes forever to transfer me to a person, where, i kid you not, they will pick up the phone and then leave it on the counter to dead air. Makes refilling my adhd meds very difficult since im required to speak to a person to get them filled.
Your CVS is staffed? The CVS and Walgreens around me are chronically understaffed. Like one pharmacist and one tech filling prescriptions and handing them out.
Weirdly, the Safeway pharmacy is always very well staffed. 2 pharmacists, 4 techs. I wonder how much better their benefits are than Walgreens.
Oh, is Walgreen’s your pharmacy too?
Is this AI edited?
If you are in the US and have a Costco membership, try getting your prescriptions without entering in your insurance. They will put you in the Costco Member Prescription Program. My pills were 75% cheaper. Also this works if you don’t have insurance.
Yeah, they refuse to enroll anyone locally if you don’t have insurance. I tried.
